Definition of "diseases" []

• Plural form of disease. (noun)

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• "If reissued, the book would need bringing up to date, for the claim to cure certain diseases is now forbidden by law, while many new kinds of rubbish have come on to the market."
• "The very names by which they call diseases sweeten and mollify the sharpness of them: the phthisic is with them no more than"
• "If it can be shown that all those disturbances of the bodily organism, which we call diseases, have their origin in Sin, as the source of all discord in human nature, we may infer that there is a close connexion between these miracles and his proper calling; and that, in healing the diseases produced by sin, by means of his influence upon the essential nature of the disturbed organism, he displayed himself also as the"